The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-10
Systematic Housekeeping.
Housekeeping should be conduct.

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on system. No business 10 we'll oon-
Quoted without systematic rules which
are strictly adhered to. Housekeeping
is as much business as bookkeeping,
though but few housekeepers ever look
at it in that light. There should DO q
place for everything, to begin with. A
great deal of vexation, Of loss OF time
and extra labor results from not having
things where they belong. II you ara
in hurry to find anything, it general
ly happens that it can't be found; or, II
found, 1t has to be hunted for. This
can all be avoided by forming the habit
of putting each article in its proper
place and keeping it there when not in
use. 1t is an easy matter to do this
when once the habit is formed. DO not
allow yourself TO "lay anything down
wherever it becomes handy to do so. "
Ii your kitchen has not conveniences
OF the kind required, make them or get
them made. Insist on having a set OF
small drawers in which to keep spices.
ETC., near your mixing table. Have
these drawers labelled plainly. Have
place by itself for such vessels as you
use for baking and other cooking.
Never let these vessels got into any
other department. This concentrates
your labor; there will be no necessity
for running here and there for what ia
wanted. When you want anything
you know where it is.
Let the idea of place for everything
and everything in its place be carried
out in all departments of the household.
To reduce housekeeping to system,
you must arrange your work after
plan and let that plan be adhered to.
Take it up in an orderly way, not as
80 many others do in a tumble, doing
little of this now, and then little Of
that OF trying to do half dozen
things at the same time Get one
thing out of the way before you begin
another. Think your work over and
decide the order in which it can be
done to the best advantage, and, hay
ing ascertained from exper what
that order is. make it the daily pro-
gramme. In short time you will see
household matters moving like clock
fusion. In doing homework. 1t should
be the aim of the housekeeper to save
time and labor as far as possible. When
one step will answer never take two.
BY having things in their proper place.
and knowing just what is to be done at
n particular time, you can economic
time and labor to great extent Some
women make half dozen trips to the
cellar where one would be sufficient il
they worked as well with their heads
as they do with their hands. They do
not take the trouble to think, before
going to the cellar or storeroom for one
required from that place. All might be
brought at the same time, and thus
much time saved and many steps. 1t
pays to think these things out.
The kitchen should be roomy. No
woman can do homework well in small,
clutteredup rooms. Let it be arranged
as conveniently as possible. Have
place for the accommodation of dirty
clothes, and teach the children to put
all their soiled garments there when
they are exchanged for clean ones.
This will remove the necessity of max
ing a trip to every room on wash day.
Insist on having the occupants of each
room strip the clothes from the beds
and hang before the window to air, on
rising. If this be done, by the time the
morning work is out of the way in
kitchen, the chamber work can DO
attended to. BY making it the rule to
have everything in its proper place,
other members of the family than the !
housekeeper can find needed articles |
readily and without throwing every
thing into confusion. Let the bill of |
fare be varied from day to day. When |
you get hold of a good recipe put it in
a scrap-book, which should be kept in
every kitchen. In short time you will |
have a large number of recipes which
you can rely on, and reference to this
will suggest variations in the daily
food. Never admit anything bnt a
tested and reliable recipe. Every
kitchen should have set of measures
and scales for use in making cakes and
other articles which must be compound
ed earthly and accurately as regards
-PracticaL Farmer.